Leading Agile

APRIL 15, 2019

That’s defined as a form of “waste” in Lean Thinking. In software development processes, unfinished inventory can take the form of stale requirements, untested code, tested but undeployed code, deployed but unreleased code, and so forth. Explicitly Define Slack Time. The steps are: Identify the constraint.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Technical Review 117

Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

Project size as defined by the amount of work needed to finish the work should be one factor in deciding what project management method you should use. Although the project size defined as the amount of work needed to complete work has the direct effect the size of the team needed, very large teams have an inverse effect on productivity.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 97

Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

Project size as defined by the amount of work needed to finish the work should be one factor on deciding what project management method you should use. Although the project size defined as the amount of work needed to complete work has direct effect the size of the team needed, very large teams have an inverse effect on productivity.

Agile 100

Agile Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 100

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

John is the co-author of Agile Project Management for Mobile Application Development. It takes much more than attendance on a course to create sustained changes in performance, says @worsley_louise Click To Tweet. Because when you define your goals for 2019, remember that the difference is not in quantity but in quality.

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2019 Technical Review PMO Consulting 291

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Benefits Framework: This defines the expected benefits of the project, the specific operations it would affect, and how the project's performance would be; a) realized, and b) measured. Blueprint: A project blueprint defines the scope of the project, the business goals it is meant to achieve, and the broader vision behind it.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In this series of posts, we’ll introduce the idea of unit testing shell scripts, and then we’ll explore several unit test frameworks that can help make that task practical and sustainable at scale. On a *nix platform it’s possible to override the real df command by defining an alias. If diskusage.sh

Software Review 95

Software Review Infrastructure Engineering Executing 95

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The Hypothesis requires tests (experiments) to confirm that we're moving in the right direction along the path defined in the Plan. If the IMP is being prepared as part of a proposal, then the Request for Proposal (RFP) and RFP attachments will be the primary documents to define the work to be performed. Plans are Strategies.

Planning 42

Planning Software Review Governance Government 42

MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There is a lot, even if you look at PMI or you look at Prince2, there’s a lot that you go through in defining requirements, creating risk plans. You define your roles and responsibilities. In many cases, in a non-agile approach they’re referred to what’s called planning and documentation. Rigidity does not help.

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